WTBSEs 'Starting From Scratch' Savings Diary.

JoJoC

Ooh, I remember being addicted to the sims on the PC back in the day! I don't get why it's so addictive though- thinking about it, there's nothing interesting about it! Yet, if I actually sat down to it again, I bet I could waste hours on it!

Yeah, it's such a shame about the little man. He's gotten worse as the day has gone on- he's running a temperature too, so calpol and bed has been administered. Normally he won't stay still for longer than 5 seconds, but he's been lying on my lap all afternoon. Poor baba. I've just put him down for the night so i'll give him 15 minutes then pop in with the thermometer.

#paranoidmummy

My weekend is going fine thanks, apart from the poorly baby. Husband is still working a lot, yes, so he's knackered when he comes in at night. He's not had a day off in weeks and has already got work (homers) pencilled in for Tuesday night and Thursday night. It's great for the money but I don't want him to run himself into the ground. Need to keep a close eye on him!

Glad you passed your test Cathy- well done!

Eco miser, we use a clothes horse and only use the dryer in an emergency (a couple of times a year).

TM6

Guessing game over.....

We are camping :j

It is so relaxed but thankfully there is internet here :rotfl:

JoJoC

I love camping hope you have a fab time and get some good weather for it!

We might go camping again in a couple of years once my wee boy is bigger- he's only 1 right now!!

TM6

JoJoC wrote: »

I love camping hope you have a fab time and get some good weather for it!

We might go camping again in a couple of years once my wee boy is bigger- he's only 1 right now!!

I went into labour with my DD3 from the camp site and returned back to our Trailer Tent when she was 12 days old

This was all planned

All of our 4 children have camped under the age of one - why don't you try it overnight

WTBSE - Jenny was born at Treliske :dance:

JoJoC

Wow- sounds fab!!

I'm not too fussed about the taking him to the actual camping itself, it's more about the cold. We'll probably wait until next year to give it a go! Camping in Scotland is still pretty cold in the summer

tiger_eyes

JoJoC wrote: »

Ooh, I remember being addicted to the sims on the PC back in the day! I don't get why it's so addictive though- thinking about it, there's nothing interesting about it! Yet, if I actually sat down to it again, I bet I could waste hours on it!

Games are deliberately designed to play on addictive aspects of our psychology. It's quite fascinating. Far back in the ancestry of video games is a scientist in a lab experimenting on monkeys to figure out how to get them to push a button repeatedly.

WantToBeSE

I have some great memories of camping, especially when the children were younger. I think my oldest was about 18 months old the first time we tried it with kids though, I am not as brave as you TM6! We (my ex and I) used to have a minibus that he did up and we used to go off for weekends in that too, but in the early days it was a tent Enjoy, TM6!

Making some herby cheesy bread today, its in the oven as we speak. I only make it when I know I am going to be eating a lot of soup for lunches. Its perfect to dip in tomato soup. It is dirt cheap to make too, so that helps!

Its a lovely day here today and I am going to get some washing out on the line. I have no idea what my teenager is going to do for school uniform tomorrow- I told him that if he doesn't put clothes into the washing basket, it wont get done. I am still waiting for his uniform to appear in the basket. Oh well, he'll learn!

WantToBeSE

tiger_eyes wrote: »

Games are deliberately designed to play on addictive aspects of our psychology. It's quite fascinating. Far back in the ancestry of video games is a scientist in a lab experimenting on monkeys to figure out how to get them to push a button repeatedly.

Surely that's just conditioning though. Reminds me of Pavlov and his dogs We did a lot of CC and OC in my degree and watched loads of videos of dogs, cats and fish being OC and CC, it was fun
I tried CC on my cat once, but she has better stamina than me and I caved in first

TM6

JoJoC wrote: »

Wow- sounds fab!!

I'm not too fussed about the taking him to the actual camping itself, it's more about the cold. We'll probably wait until next year to give it a go! Camping in Scotland is still pretty cold in the summer

What we need is an a 'WTBSE Annual Camping Event' in Bude with guaranteed sunshine :rotfl:

tiger_eyes

WantToBeSE wrote: »

Surely that's just conditioning though. Reminds me of Pavlov and his dogs We did a lot of CC and OC in my degree and watched loads of videos of dogs, cats and fish being OC and CC, it was fun
I tried CC on my cat once, but she has better stamina than me and I caved in first

I'm basing this on vague memories of an article, but I'm pretty sure they did experiments into what kind of reward system to set up to get the monkeys pressing that button. They found that the trick is providing unpredictable rewards, because you never know if the next button-press might get you a reward. Which is why item drops in MMORPGs are random!